added emoji support, fixes: #29

README.md

@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ This workflow has additional options that you can use to customize it for your u
 | `gh_token` | your GitHub token with repo scope | Use this to configure the token of the user that commits the workflow result to GitHub | No |
 | `comment_tag_name` | `BLOG-POST-LIST` | Allows you to override the default comment tag name (`<!-- BLOG-POST-LIST:START --><!-- BLOG-POST-LIST:END -->`), if you want to show multiple instances of the action on the same repo, see advanced usage for more info | No | 
 | `disable_sort` | `false` | Disables the sorting of the list based on publish date | No |
-| `template` | `default` | Allows you to change the structure of the posts list by using the `$title`, `$url`, `$newline`, and `$date` variables. By default this workflow uses markdown list format to render the posts, you can override this behavior using this option. Eg: `[$title]($url) ` will give you a space-separated list of posts | No |
+| `template` | `default` | Allows you to change the structure of the posts list by using the `$title`, `$url`, `$newline`, and `$date` variables. By default this workflow uses markdown list format to render the posts, you can override this behavior using this option. Eg: `[$title]($url) ` will give you a space-separated list of posts. You can alo use `$randomEmoji` or `$emojiKey` with emoji as parameters to display emojis on your posts list see [issue comment](https://github.com/gautamkrishnar/blog-post-workflow/issues/29#issuecomment-699622596), example: `$newline - $randomEmoji(💯,🔥,💫,🚀,🌮) [$title]($url)`  | No |
 | `date_format` | `UTC:ddd mmm dd yyyy h:MM TT` | Allows you to change the format of the date or time displayed when using the $date in the template option. This uses NPM dateformat library, please read the library [documentation](https://www.npmjs.com/package/dateformat#named-formats) for the supported formats | No |
 | `user_agent` | `rss-parser` | Allows you to customize the user agent used by the RSS feed crawler | No |
 | `accept_header` | `application/rss+xml` | Allows you to customize the accept header of the http requests | No |

blog-post-workflow.js

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ const core = require('@actions/core');
 const fs = require('fs');
 const dateFormat = require('dateformat');
 const exec = require('./exec');
+const rand = require('random-seed');
 
 /**
  * Builds the new readme by replacing the readme's <!-- BLOG-POST-LIST:START --><!-- BLOG-POST-LIST:END --> tags
@@ -111,6 +112,24 @@ const updateAndParseCompoundParams = (sourceWithParam, obj) => {
   }
 };
 
+/**
+ * Returns parsed parameterised templates as array or return null
+ * @param template
+ * @param keyName
+ * @return {null|string[]}
+ */
+const getParameterisedTemplate = (template, keyName) => {
+  if (template.indexOf('$' + keyName) > -1 && template.match(new  RegExp('\\$' + keyName + '\\((.)*\\)', 'g'))) {
+    return template.match(new  RegExp('\\$' + keyName + '\\((.)*\\)', 'g'))[0]
+      .replace('$'+ keyName +'(','')
+      .replace(')','')
+      .split(',')
+      .map(item=> item.trim());
+  } else {
+    return null;
+  }
+};
+
 core.setSecret(GITHUB_TOKEN);
 const COMMENT_FILTERS = core
   .getInput('filter_comments')
@@ -245,6 +264,8 @@ Promise.allSettled(promiseArray).then((results) => {
     try {
       const readmeData = fs.readFileSync(README_FILE_PATH, 'utf8');
       const template = core.getInput('template');
+      const randEmojiArr = getParameterisedTemplate(template, 'randomEmoji');
+      const constEmojiArr = getParameterisedTemplate(template, 'emojiKey');
       const postListMarkdown = postsArray.reduce((acc, cur, index) => {
         if (template === 'default') {
           // Default template: - [$title]($url)
@@ -263,6 +284,21 @@ Promise.allSettled(promiseArray).then((results) => {
             const replaceValue = cur[tag] ? cur[tag] : '';
             content = content.replace(new  RegExp('\\$' + tag + '\\b', 'g'), replaceValue);
           });
+
+          // Emoji implementation: Random
+          if (randEmojiArr) {
+            // For making randomness unique for each repos
+            const seed = (process.env.GITHUB_REPOSITORY ? process.env.GITHUB_REPOSITORY : 'example') + index;
+            const emoji = randEmojiArr[rand.create(seed).range(randEmojiArr.length)];
+            content = content.replace(/\$randomEmoji\((.)*\)/g, emoji);
+          }
+
+          // Emoji implementation: Static
+          if (constEmojiArr) {
+            // using modulus
+            content = content.replace(/\$emojiKey\((.)*\)/g, constEmojiArr[index % constEmojiArr.length]);
+          }
+
           return acc + content;
         }
       }, '');

package.json

@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
     "@actions/core": "^1.2.5",
     "dateformat": "^3.0.3",
     "process": "latest",
+    "random-seed": "^0.3.0",
     "rss-parser": "^3.9.0"
   },
   "devDependencies": {

yarn.lock

@@ -3506,7 +3506,7 @@ json-schema@0.2.3:
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/json-schema/-/json-schema-0.2.3.tgz#b480c892e59a2f05954ce727bd3f2a4e882f9e13"
   integrity sha1-tIDIkuWaLwWVTOcnvT8qTogvnhM=
 
-json-stringify-safe@~5.0.1:
+json-stringify-safe@^5.0.1, json-stringify-safe@~5.0.1:
   version "5.0.1"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/json-stringify-safe/-/json-stringify-safe-5.0.1.tgz#1296a2d58fd45f19a0f6ce01d65701e2c735b6eb"
   integrity sha1-Epai1Y/UXxmg9s4B1lcB4sc1tus=
@@ -4823,6 +4823,13 @@ quote-stream@^1.0.1, quote-stream@~1.0.2:
     minimist "^1.1.3"
     through2 "^2.0.0"
 
+random-seed@^0.3.0:
+  version "0.3.0"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/random-seed/-/random-seed-0.3.0.tgz#d945f2e1f38f49e8d58913431b8bf6bb937556cd"
+  integrity sha1-2UXy4fOPSejViRNDG4v2u5N1Vs0=
+  dependencies:
+    json-stringify-safe "^5.0.1"
+
 randombytes@^2.0.0, randombytes@^2.0.1, randombytes@^2.0.5, randombytes@^2.1.0:
   version "2.1.0"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/randombytes/-/randombytes-2.1.0.tgz#df6f84372f0270dc65cdf6291349ab7a473d4f2a"